PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



vi>L. 65. 



Isis. — One of the principal deities of ancient Egypt. The following prayer 

 was used while preparing medicines, and hefore taking the same : 



I\Iay Isis heal me, as she healed Horus of all the ills inflicted 

 upon him when Set slew his father Osiris. O Isis. thou great en- 

 chantress, free me, deliver me from all evil, had and horrible 



Fig. 2. — Animal Mask. 



things, from the God and Goddess of evil, from the God and God- 

 dess of sickness, and from the unclean demon who presses upon 

 me, as thou didst loose and free thy son Horus. Baas's History 

 of Medicine. 

 Indian invocations. Fern roots.— For the cure of rheumatism. The com- 

 mon belief of the Indians regarding rheumatism is that it is caused by the 



